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Oleaceae, also known as the olive family or sometimes the lilac family, is a taxonomic family of flowering shrubs, trees, and a few lianas in the order Lamiales. [1] It presently comprises 28 genera , one of which is recently extinct . [ 2 ]
Olea (/ ˈ oʊ l i ə / OH-lee-ə [3]) is a genus of flowering plants in the family Oleaceae. It includes 12 species native to warm temperate and tropical regions of the Middle East, southern Europe, Africa, southern Asia, and Australasia. [2] They are evergreen trees and shrubs, with small, opposite, entire leaves. The fruit is a drupe.
Oleaceae (olive family) 541 Fraxinus angustifolia: narrow-leafed ash Oleaceae (olive family) Fraxinus caroliniana: Carolina ash Oleaceae (olive family) 548 Fraxinus excelsior: European ash Oleaceae (olive family) Fraxinus latifolia: Oregon ash Oleaceae (olive family) 542 Fraxinus nigra: black ash Oleaceae (olive family) 543 Fraxinus ornus ...
Pages in category "Oleaceae" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
Osmanthus / ɒ z ˈ m æ n θ ə s / [3] is a genus of about 30 species of flowering plants in the family Oleaceae.Most of the species are native to eastern Asia (China, Japan, Korea, Southeast Asia, the Himalayas, etc.) with a few species from the Caucasus, New Caledonia, and Sumatra.
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Olea oleaster, the wild-olive, has been considered by various botanists a valid species and a subspecies [1] of the cultivated olive tree, Olea europea, which is a tree of multiple origins [2] that was domesticated, it now appears, at various places during the fourth and third millennia BCE, in selections drawn from varying local populations. [3]